User talk:Huon/Archive33

Eben Alexander (author)

I would appreciate your assistance in correcting factual inaccuracies and distortions persisting on the Wikipedia page about me, Eben Alexander (author). Please reach out to me at info@ebenalexander.com, or steer me towards an editor for Wikipedia who has an interest in truthful pages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ealexander3 (talk • contribs) 14:07, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Ealexander3: It would help if you could tell what, exactly, in the article is inaccurate or distorted, either here or at the article's talk page at Talk:Eben Alexander (author) (use the "New section" tab at the top of the article's talk page to start a new discussion). At a glance the page history doesn't show any recent vandalism or any other significant chages within the past few months. Huon (talk) 17:42, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for correcting my (" instead of ' ' marks = italic print) edit on the Books of the Chuthulu Mythos entry. I checked the response/answer-suggestion but before I could fix it, you'd fixed it for me! Ta very much.

Lily — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lily Luna Villon (talk • contribs) 14:09, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Jemerrio Jones

Saw you removed part of my edit on his page. Wondering what I did wrong and how I can fix it! Brosenow (talk) 03:44, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Brosenow: Part of the content you added duplicated other content already present in the article. All of it was unreferenced. As far as I can tell, the last part ("signed with the Wisconsin Herd") wasn't correct at that time. He had signed with the Bucks with the intent of getting waived and playing for the Herd, but I couldn't find reliable sources beyond rumors about that part of his career. By now better sources explaining that move may exist. Huon (talk) 12:45, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! How do I insert a reference — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brosenow (talk • contribs) 21:50, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Brosenow: See WP:Referencing for beginners; the video on that page explains how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes to cite your references. Huon (talk) 22:58, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Edit to Darul Huda

I think you can help in editing this page. ScholarM (talk) 14:58, 31 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for answering my answer on my talk page!

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	Thanks for answering my question on my talk page! I didn't know where to write this on your talk page as I didn't want to ruin it's formatting and stuff so I decided to send you this! WikiPizzeria (talk) 02:28, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your abusive use of administrative privileges WP:TOOLMISUSE

Your administrative abuse has been reported: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#WP:TOOLMISUSE by user:acroterion and user:huon --83.29.48.82 (talk) 03:08, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thanks for your help! Much appreciated. Hrhenderson (talk) 21:18, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Help with recoding the NZTCS template

Hi there,

Back in May 2018 you were part of a discussion about how we update the New Zealand Threat Classification System from the 2002 to 2008 categories. I've created new graphics for all the categories, but we have a problem. The old categories RR, SP, GD, and DD are no longer used, and there are now categories NU, Rel, R, and D. The table here explains it all: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Status_NZTCS_D.svg

Is there any way the code for the template could be changed to allow use of the new categories? There are still some articles using the old categories, which we'll work on updating, but it would be good if the old category still appeared in those cases so the infobox doesn't break.

What's the next step to make this happen? If you're too busy to help, can you pass me on to someone who can? We'd like to get this sorted in time for an edit-a-thon on the 24th.

Many thanks. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 07:56, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Giantflightlessbirds: The template that controls the status is Template:Taxobox/species. The next steps should be as follows:

The new NZTCS statuses should be added to the template, with the links to the images and descriptive texts.
All species that use the old, deprecated statuses should be updated. It's probably easiest to find them via the images: file:Status NZTCS RR.svg, file:Status NZTCS SP.svg, file:Status NZTCS GD.svg and file:Status NZTCS SD.svg.
When there are no species any more that use the deprecated statuses, those statuses can be removed from the template.

My internet connection is extremely unstable at the moment, but I'll do step 1. Huon (talk) 00:24, 17 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This all seems to be working great (once I figured out to use REL instead of Rel). I'm starting work on clearing the old statuses, and we'll add lots more this weekend. Many thanks! —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 02:16, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your help

I appreciate your response to my question about citation best practice. My question stemmed from helping out finding missing citations. I've seen cases where there are two or three sentences together, one citation at the end, and a missing citation notice in a previous sentence. It could be that these sentence don't all come from the same source, but it is hard to tell that or know whether the one citation covers all these nearby sentences. TrudiJ (talk) 03:37, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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IP editor has returned

Hi Huon, sorry to bother you... but I find myself back again seeking your assistance if you are willing. I noted that HESA Karrar was edited again by an IP, almost certainly the same individual as before. In one of their two edit summaries they provide a source that they claim validates their removal of content relating to similarities between this Iranian drone, and American/South African ones it is alleged to derive from. In my opinion, their source actually supports the existing content, not its removal.

(First paragraph: "first public showings ... strongly suggest that it is a near identical primary copy" of the South African drone; and later "the design of the Karrar traces back to the BQM-126A target drone, developed by the U.S. company Beechcraft in the 1970s.")

I'm still not 100% convinced this is true vandalism, so I am being extra careful here to avoid getting sucked into an edit war. I have no interest in the article's subject beside fixing bad edits. I defer to your judgment as to what the best course of action is, or perhaps no action at all. Best, [Belinrahs|^talk⁄ _edits] 03:32, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Belinrahs: I have reverted the article, added another comment on the talk page, and requested semi-protection. Hopefully that will help. Huon (talk) 19:49, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for your help -- I'll try to avoid bothering you with this issue again! I'm continuing to learn more so hopefully I won't need so much help in the future. [Belinrahs|^talk⁄ _edits] 22:00, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Can you Review this?

Hi Huon, Can you review the Draft:Sunita Maheshwari ? Avinash1994 (talk) 04:16, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Avinash1994: I'm sorry, but as a matter of principle I do not review the same draft twice in a row. If I were to review it again I'd likely decline it again; I don't think the issues pointed out in my previous review have been fixed. Huon (talk) 19:49, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for you reply. Avinash1994 (talk) 04:30, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Pls Review This

Hey Huon, pls review Agnel Roman

@Annki777: I took a look at the article; unfortunately I do not see that Agnel Roman meets Wikipedia's standards of inclusion. I have thus nominated the page for a deletion discussion at WP:Articles for deletion/Agnel Roman. I'd strongly advise you not to create new live articles but to instead make use of the review process via the Article Wizard, and to review the criteria for notability. Huon (talk) 23:39, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Paid Editing Status

Hello Huon, Thanks for informing me that my paid editing is incomplete. Can you explain in detail about what I have to disclose about my employer other than Upwork. Also, 99 percent of my edits are free and only 1 per cent or less or paid. Please provide information with all html tags that I have to put in my user page so that Wikipedia knows that I also do paid editing for genuine work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ContentNerd (talk • contribs) 10:58, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ContentNerd: The Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use require that you disclose employer, client and any other relevant association. Upwork is the "other relevant association" since it's the freelancer platform where you get the work. You are, however, not hired by Upwork itself, and you also aren't hired to write about Upwork. You could use Template:Paid as follows (fill the parameters out as appropriate for your case):

{{paid|employer=Whoever actually pays you via Upwork|client=On whose behalf you are hired, if different from employer|article=The specific article you are hired to edit|additional=Via Upwork (with link if relevant)}}

If you are hired by the same employer to edit multiple articles, the template page has an example for giving a list of all those articles. If you are hired by multiple parties, then you can add a copy of the template for each party. In that way you can not only provide employer and client, you also can specify which 1% of articles you edit are part of your paid work. See WP:PAID for the relevant policy, too. Huon (talk) 00:00, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @Huon, I will definitely do this shortly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ContentNerd (talk • contribs) 08:03, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Cheers

Damon Runyon's short story "Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the hot Tom and Jerry

This hot Tom and Jerry is an old-time drink that is once used by one and all in this country to celebrate Christmas with, and in fact it is once so popular that many people think Christmas is invented only to furnish an excuse for hot Tom and Jerry, although of course this is by no means true.

No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well H. MarnetteD|Talk 11:39, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Landships

Newly created Category:Landships is a candidate for ~~renaming~~ deletion. Since it is populated almost exclusively with mining equipment, which is already covered by Category:Mining equipment, ~~it could be renamed "Category:Mining machinery"~~ it should be deleted. Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 21:57, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

HopsonRoad, I agree. See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 December 19#Category:Landships. Huon (talk) 03:22, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Merry Christmas, Huon!
Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice! As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia. And for all the help you've thrown my way over the years. May this Holiday Season bring you nothing but joy, health and prosperity.CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 07:35, 22 December 2019 (UTC) [reply]

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2 more sleeps - Ho, Ho, Ho!!

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Happy holidays!

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Belated holiday greetings

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Merry Christmas and happy new year.
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Rename "Landship (Barbados)" to "Barbados Landship"?

See discussion at Talk:Landship (Barbados)#Rename: "Barbados Landship". Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 15:26, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year!

Huon,
Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 01:07, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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